The only holiday that really matters
No gifts, no guilt. Universal, even if it's not celebrated on the same day everywhere.Whenever I sit down at this keyboard, I feel humbled and quite lucky to have the privilege. Every day is Thanksgiving, because without the people we love and depend on, there'd be nothing.Thanks for being here, for making a difference and for doing work that matters.Thank you.

Thirsty
I've noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also tend to be intellectually curious, thirsty for knowledge, quicker to adopt new ideas and more likely to do important work.I wonder which comes first, the curiosity or the success?

What sort of accent do you have?
Not only the way you speak—but the way you write and act. More than geography, accents now represent a choice of attitude.Let's define an accent as the way someone speaks (writes, acts) that's different from the way I do it. So, if I'm from Liverpool and you're from Texas, you have an accent, I don't.Occasionally, an accent is a marketing advantage. Sounding like Sean Connery might be seen as charming in a New York singles' bar, or sounding like a Harvard man might help a neurologist in Miami Beach. Generally, though, if I think you've got an accent, it's more difficult to trust you.Can your writing have an accent? Of course it can. Not just grammar errors, but sen

Rupert Murdoch has it backwards
You don't charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention.

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